Milgrams Cognitive Overload Model: Reactions to Overload

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Milgrams Cognitive Overload ModelReactions to
Overload

• Allocate less time to each input (brusque manner)
• Disregard low priority inputs
• Redrawn boundaries in social transactionsshift
  overload to others
• Receptor is blocked prior to entrance into system
  (unlisted telephone numbers)
• Filtering devices diminish intensity of inputs
  (answering machines)
• Creation of special institutions to absorb
  inputs/shield the individual

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Loflands Privacy Model Symbolic
TransformationsSource Lofland, L. H. (1973).
A world of strangers Order and action in urban
public space. New York Basic Books

• Rules for urban behaviour
• Minimize expressivity
• Minimize body contact, keep to the right
• Sit away from others
• Minimize eye contact with strangers
• When in doubt, flee
• Disattend, pretend not to notice deviants